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Surely you didn’t expect me to cook in this heat?

Picked all three of these up from the deli at Whole Foods. Their raw kale salad is always good… with tomatoes, pine nuts, dried cranberries, lemon juice, olive oil, salt & pepper… and we’re in effect. The edemame salad had red onion, yellow bell pepper, sweet rice wine vinegar, green onions, seseame oil, fresh ginger & garlic and cilantro. If it wasn’t for all the onions I would have loved it. As is, just ok. The tofu had been baked in a cilantro pesto, a winning combination.

There’s a whole lot of goodness happening on this here plate. The Israeli couscous comes premade from Whole Foods deli… yummy huge couscous, eggplant, portabello mushrooms, wild rice and cranberries… I love this stuff. The grilled seiten also comes premade from Whole Foods, I think they get it from a local restaurant. I suppose I can consider this “homecooked” because after all, I DID add the parsley all by myself, topped with a drizzle of sesame-shitake dressing and gomasio.

Prepared salad from Whole Foods. With mixed lettuces, goji berries, water chestnut, carrots, snow peas and tofu. The dressing was a tasty hoisin-apricot-miso-seseame concoction.

Thai balls of love called “Saku”. Made with tapioca, radish, sugar, salt, peanut, onion, chili and fresh cilantro. I like mine covered in lime juice. From Bangkok Express, found at Bangluck Market.

Studio City Farmers Market

Breakfast/lunch consisted of a delicious green corn tamale with sweet corn filling and spicy red & green tomatillo sauce. With fresh unprocessed apple pomegranate juice from a local farm.

Here’s my score for the day… all fresh and organic produce from local farms. Apples, dandelion greens, dinosaur kale, hydroponic basil, snap peas, green beans, asparagus, bok choi, beets and fennel.